As someone that compulsively avoids doing quests and progressing the story in open world games, FO76 feels.... fine. The inventory stuff is annoying, because I have to continually scold myself for looting things like ammo, pre-war money, and cigarettes that prior Fallouts have taught me can be used as easy…

Except... the door does open? You just have to interact with the bar across the door, not the door itself. Maybe the bar is loosened up by taking explosive damage or something, I was a little reckless tossing TNT around to open that safe in the first place. 

This is what I have done. The games scratch very different itches, and when I am tired of one’s shit, the other feels like a welcome change of pace.

Unfortunately, I committed the unforgiveable sin of shooting a deer that was hanging out in their front yard, so both just came out swinging knives at me like lunatics with no introduction. I only found out about their incestuousness after looting their home, and then looking it up to find out that its a much, much…

Last night was my first bad experience after a week of RDR2... Did they patch? Suddenly, animals are requiring me to “R2 to draw” like civvies when focused with L2, making hunting less fluid than its been all week. And my horse, the stepper you start with... has developed PTSD after a recent spree of tree collisions?…

You absolutely have a choice. Even all-the-way dirty guns work just fine, at about 90% capacity. Normal bullets are fine, or there are other special bullets to buy that arent crafted split points. You dont have to forage, or cook, or craft, because all it does is let you make end products that youll find killing…

I'm so tired of hearing "can't be true, because [insert every pedophile] has worked with children in [church/team] for years!!!" 

This only makes sense if you’re pretending that the market for games is entirely persons living in urban areas of western countries. The difference between a $300 and a $500 or even $1000 console gaming system is not insurmountable for enthusiasts, but no amount of saving is going to let me force my ISP to build…

Oh no a burner is promising not to read one GMG site because of something posted on another whatever will we do?

I miss Caity :(

But is nevertheless ABOUT the internet, so...

While I do not doubt your enthusiasm and dedication, if you are sitting at one sub after four years... it kinda sounds like maybe you should give up/try a different approach at this point? I mean, after four years... what do you think is going to suddenly click that hasn’t already?

“The founding fathers fought a war to X” statements are often huge simplifications, if not outright inaccuracies, usually used to hand wave a point about what “America” means. This one is a pretty good example!

The native american sovereignty issue is a really big deal... trumps position seems to be that the entire system of indian health services are provided as a voluntary hand out to a racial group, instead of the necessary result of binding treaties with distinct sovereign political entities, the tribes. It isnt just…

Except that she doesn’t have a gun, and isn’t responsible for giving you life-saving medication or suturing your wounds?

Quit clutching your pearls people. Sometimes people show up to work drunk, and get fired. Doesn’t make it a personal attack against your health and safety.

I enjoyed the couch co op very much, definitely is a fun format for a story driven game... but ooooooof is the writing bad and thin (especially the ending). Im thrilled its sold so well, everyone should play it once with a buddy, but hopefully it will be followed by other games that better deliver on its promising…

I blame Snacktaku

Nothing quite sums up privilege so well as the belief that “police are pretty much obligated to respond.” Even in my friendly small town community, there are neighborhoods where someone better be waving a weapon around if you want a cop to respond to your 911 call.

To be fair, I listened to Tubbs’ NPR interview, and it did not really sound like he understood anything about how Alaska’s PFD works other than “free money.” The fund is not a redistribtion of taxes, it is a dividend returned from the investment of taxes and leases levied on oil companies by the State, because…

Most of those drawings are recognizeable to me as a player as ultimately having become something in game... but they definitely had a generic “graphics card box art” look to them in the end. Muriel is a great example... starts as that super tall spindly robot, in game shipped as a more typically woman-shaped robot...…